{"id":38123,"date":"2025-07-04T19:58:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=38123"},"modified":"2025-07-04T19:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:58:05","slug":"archdiocese-of-baltimore-refusing-to-reopen-parish-after-vatican-order-advocates-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/pt\/learn\/archdiocese-of-baltimore-refusing-to-reopen-parish-after-vatican-order-advocates-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Arquidiocese de Baltimore \u2018recusa-se\u2019 a reabrir par\u00f3quia ap\u00f3s ordem do Vaticano, dizem defensores"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; margin-bottom: 25px;\">\n  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/storage\/image\/baltimore-sean-pavone-shutterstock-1.jpg?ssl=1\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; max-width: 100%\" \/><br \/>\n  <span style=\"text-align: right; font-style: italic;\">A cidade de Baltimore. \/ Cr\u00e9dito: Sean Pavone\/Shutterstock<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reda\u00e7\u00e3o de Washington, D.C., 20 de maio de 2025 \/ 15:20 (CNA).<\/p>\n<p>A Arquidiocese de Baltimore foi acusada de desafiar uma ordem do Vaticano ap\u00f3s supostamente se recusar a reabrir uma par\u00f3quia de Maryland, apesar de uma carta da Santa S\u00e9 interrompendo seu fechamento.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Na primavera de 2024, o Arcebispo William Lori <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbalt.org\/archbishop-loris-message-on-seek-the-city-final-plan\/\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">anunciou<\/a> tomou a \u201cdif\u00edcil\u201d decis\u00e3o de fundir par\u00f3quias em Baltimore e nos sub\u00farbios vizinhos como parte da iniciativa arquidiocesana \u201cSeek the City to Come\u201d. Entre as par\u00f3quias destinadas ao fechamento estava a de St. Clare em Essex.<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e1rios paroquianos de St. Clare que discordaram do plano buscaram assist\u00eancia da <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saveromeofthewest.com\/\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Save Rome of the West<\/a>, uma organiza\u00e7\u00e3o que oferece servi\u00e7os de consultoria \u201cpara auxiliar na preserva\u00e7\u00e3o e manuten\u00e7\u00e3o de igrejas e par\u00f3quias cat\u00f3licas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Os cofundadores do grupo, Jason Bolte e Brody Hale, ajudaram a paroquiana Barbara Pivonski a escrever e enviar uma carta formal ao Vaticano em outubro de 2024, apelando contra o plano de Lori e solicitando a reabertura da igreja.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Em fevereiro, eles receberam uma carta do Cardeal Lazzaro You Heung-sik, prefeito do Dicast\u00e9rio para o Clero, declarando que a \u201csuspens\u00e3o solicitada\u201d da \u201cfus\u00e3o extintiva\u201d foi \u201cconcedida durante a dura\u00e7\u00e3o do recurso\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Bolte, Hale e Pivonski acreditaram que a resposta do Vaticano aprovava a reabertura de St. Clare enquanto o recurso estava sob an\u00e1lise, mas a arquidiocese contestou essa interpreta\u00e7\u00e3o. Diane Barr, consultora can\u00f4nica do escrit\u00f3rio do arcebispo, disse aos paroquianos em uma carta que a suspens\u00e3o significava apenas que a propriedade da igreja n\u00e3o poderia ser vendida.<\/p>\n<p>O porta-voz da arquidiocese, Christian Kendzierski, por sua vez, disse \u00e0 CNA que a arquidiocese \u201cest\u00e1 seguindo fielmente os requisitos inclu\u00eddos na carta recebida do Dicast\u00e9rio para o Clero\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A par\u00f3quia \u201cpermanece aberta para batismos, casamentos e funerais\u201d, disse ele.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuando um decreto \u00e9 suspenso, significa que as a\u00e7\u00f5es que ele ordena, todas elas, s\u00e3o suspensas\u201d, disse Hale, um advogado, \u00e0 CNA. No entanto, \u201ca Arquidiocese de Baltimore\u2026 recusou-se a fazer isso\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hale disse que se o Dicast\u00e9rio para o Clero \u201cdesejasse suspender apenas parte do decreto, ou algum aspecto dele, teria declarado isso\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>O advogado disse que, antes de fevereiro, ele \u201cnunca tinha visto uma \u00fanica suspens\u00e3o de par\u00f3quia emitida pelo Dicast\u00e9rio para o Clero\u201d, e agora ele testemunhou mais de uma d\u00fazia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mais de 12 par\u00f3quias na Diocese de Buffalo, em Nova York, apelaram de forma semelhante de um plano de reestrutura\u00e7\u00e3o diocesana ao Vaticano, pedindo que suas igrejas permanecessem abertas. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/263291\/vatican-grants-14-new-york-churches-delay-on-mergers-amid-challenges-to-bishop-s-plan\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">O Vaticano atendeu a esses pedidos<\/a> e a Diocese de Buffalo permitiu que elas permanecessem abertas enquanto os recursos eram avaliados.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u00c9 muito lament\u00e1vel para mim que a Arquidiocese de Baltimore tenha adotado essa posi\u00e7\u00e3o\u201d, disse Hale, argumentando que a arquidiocese \u201cprivou essas boas pessoas de poder celebrar a Semana Santa em sua par\u00f3quia\u201d e \u201cas privou de tr\u00eas meses de vida paroquial\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Pivonski disse \u00e0 CNA que St. Clare era \u201cextremamente ativa\u201d antes do fechamento.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A par\u00f3quia est\u00e1 localizada em uma \u00e1rea de alta pobreza, disse ela, e atendia aos pobres e sem-teto por meio de frequentes doa\u00e7\u00f5es de alimentos. Tamb\u00e9m trabalhava com centros de apoio \u00e0 gravidez.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Uma audi\u00eancia sobre o assunto foi adiada devido ao fechamento dos departamentos do Vaticano ap\u00f3s a morte do Papa Francisco.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>O caso ser\u00e1 \u201capresentado ao Dicast\u00e9rio para o Clero assim que ele puder ouvir o assunto\u201d, disse Hale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/264225\/archdiocese-of-baltimore-refusing-to-reopen-parish-after-vatican-order-advocates-say\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/264225\/archdiocese-of-baltimore-refusing-to-reopen-parish-after-vatican-order-advocates-say<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Baltimore. \/ Credit: Sean Pavone\/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 20, 2025 \/ 15:20 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of Baltimore has been accused of defying a Vatican order after allegedly refusing to reopen a Maryland parish despite a letter from the Holy See halting its closure.\u00a0 In the spring of 2024 Archbishop William [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":54938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-38123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Archdiocese-of-Baltimore-%E2%80%98refusing-to-reopen-parish-after-Vatican-order-advocates-say.webp?fit=800%2C533&quality=75&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22295,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/pt\/learn\/reverently-awe-inspiring-the-story-behind-twin-catholic-parishes-in-virginia-maryland\/","url_meta":{"origin":38123,"position":0},"title":"\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcReverently awe-inspiring\u2019: The story behind twin Catholic parishes in Virginia, Maryland","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"Dezembro 15, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"[ad_1] St. Benedict Church in Baltimore, Maryland (left) and St. Benedict Church in Richmond, Virginia. \/ Credit: St. Benedict Church; Daniel Payne\/CNA Richmond, Va., Dec 15, 2024 \/ 07:00 am (CNA). 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